Roots Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 6
Berkshire 2
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 4
Dorset 1
Durham 10
Essex 59
Gloucestershire 16
Hampshire 3
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 10
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 387
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 7
Lincolnshire 18
London 224
Middlesex 54
Northumberland 9
Norfolk 6
Northamptonshire 4
Nottinghamshire 2
Oxfordshire 1
Rutland 0
Shropshire 2
Suffolk 0
Somerset 9
Surrey 98
Sussex 33
Staffordshire 9
Warwickshire 8
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 1
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 4

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 1
Radnorshire 0

Roots Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Roots family

Profession Census Frequency
General Labourer 27
Scholar 15
General Servant Domestic 11
Agricultural Labourer 11
Ordinary Agricultural Labourer 10
Farmer 8
School 8
Living On Own Means 7
At School 7
House Maid Domestic 6
Housemaid Domestic 6
Servant Domestic 6
Cement Labourer 6
Carpenter 5
Domestic Servant 5
General Domestic 4
Nurse Domestic 4
Railway Porter 4
Domestic General Servant 4
Ordinery Agricultural Labourer 4
House Painter 3
Carter On Farm 3
Chalk Quarry Labourer 3
Cook Domestic 3
Domestic Cook 3

Most Frequent Forenames for Roots

Name Census Frequency
William Roots 475
Mary Roots 330
John Roots 303
Thomas Roots 296
George Roots 280
Elizabeth Roots 245
Sarah Roots 240
James Roots 186
Henry Roots 181
Ellen Roots 128
Frederick Roots 126
Charles Roots 124
Eliza Roots 124
Emily Roots 106
Ann Roots 100
Alfred Roots 97
Emma Roots 97
Edward Roots 95
Jane Roots 89
Joseph Roots 77
Robert Roots 75
Alice Roots 67
Margaret Roots 66
Charlotte Roots 63
Arthur Roots 62

Roots Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Roots 100% 6,462
2 Artis 20% 2,345
3 Rootes 83% 1,027
4 Rates 40% 917
5 Artus 20% 610
6 Rotts 80% 146
7 Retes 40% 129
8 Reats 60% 121
9 Artes 20% 111
10 Reates 50% 106

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